The Centipede Press edition of “The Deadly Percheron” by John Franklin Bardin has a painting by Dali on the cover as well. I Haven’t gotten around to reading my copy of that one yet, though it looks interesting.

I was quite surprised as well. I wasn’t part of the negotiations for the Dali, the Max Ernst, or the Chagall rights–that was all Jerad at Centipede, of course, but it is my understanding through him that the various foundations involved are a bit more reasonable when it comes to limited editions of a few hundred copies primarily of interest to a small, scholarly or somewhat scholarly audience. I doubt permission could have been obtained for a mass edition from a major house for any remotely reasonable fee.

About Jeff VanderMeer

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Jeff VanderMeer's most recent fiction is the NYT-bestselling Southern Reach trilogy (Annihilation, Authority, and Acceptance), released in 2014 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Foreign rights have sold in 17 countries and the movie rights have been acquired by Paramount Pictures/Scott Rudin Productions. His latest nonfiction books include Wonderbook: The Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction (Abrams Image). His nonfiction has appeared in the New York Times, the Guardian, the Washington Post, Atlantic.com, Vulture.com, and the Los Angeles Times. VanderMeer recently taught at the Yale Writers’ Conference and has lectured at MIT and the Library of Congress. You can contact him at pressinfo at vandermeercreative.com. (Author photo by Kyle Cassidy.) More...